Line, Tone, Mark and Pattern

Today we looked more at using mark making to create functioning marks and how we can then use those to incorporate patterns, tones and textures. Our first task was to depict contrasting words using mark making as simply as we could, these were some of my best results-

Why I think these were so successful:

These were the ones I felt communicated the idea of the words with the fewest lines which is my aim in life basically, to simplify my work. I think I could also see them working as functional images as the first one would make a good pattern on drawn clothing and the last ones remind me off animal fur or a grass texture.

Second task:

After this we had to use our newly made marks to put together a large image of our 'Dream Home'. After sketching out a few designs I decided to go forward with the dragon house one as I think it had the most personality and had lots of good opportunity for textures. Although this was more time consuming than I thought it would be (and as usual I made things WAY more complicated by choosing fiddly shapes for the collage cutouts) I think it went ok. I got a fair few textures in there which now I can really start to see the benefit of using as it gave the character a bit more depth and interest to what would have usually been a large amount of blank space.

In conclusion:
I think this activity has reminded me that I need to make more of an effort to employ more sophisticated line qualities in my work and that making a sheet of textured marks to then cut up and use for collage later is a REALLY good way of working.